Using AI to identify high risk patients with asthma and COPD
A new Yale study shows that deep learning can improve detection of patients with these diseases who are at increased risk for multiple hospitalizations. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Nitrous oxide effects are reversible with early treatment
Recreational use of “laughing gas” can cause severe, permanent damage. But a timely response can treat some of the most devastating effects, Yale experts say. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Generative AI for health information: A guide to safe use
As the use of artificial intelligence expands, Yale Medicine physicians offer tips on how to use it wisely for online medical searches. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Raul Guzman appointed the Donald Guthrie Professor of Vascular Surgery
Raul Guzman is a surgeon-scientist with an interest in the underlying mechanisms and clinical implications of arterial calcification. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Re-frame of mind: Do our brains have a built-in sense of ‘grammar’?
Based on years of research, Yale ’s George Dragoi argues that our brains develop a cellular template soon after birth that defines how we perceive the world. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Office Hours with … Elspeth Hill
In a Q&A, surgeon Elspeth Hill explains why treatment of peripheral nerve injury touches on so many disciplines — and how she is helping to pull them together. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 8, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

A new therapy effective against drug-sensitive and resistant parasites
A novel combination therapy developed by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine can help fight the drug-resistant cases of the tickborne illness babesiosis. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 5, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Yale expert addresses diabetes crisis at Senate committee hearing
Yale ’s Kasia Lipska provided testimony on the reasons behind the increase in type 2 diabetes in the U.S. and ways to expand treatment availability. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 3, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Epilepsy drug shows promise in slowing joint degeneration in osteoarthritis
Yale researchers have identified a drug target that may alleviate the joint breakdown associated with the debilitating condition. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 3, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

RSV vaccines would greatly reduce illness if implemented like flu shots
Widespread adoption of a vaccine for older adults would dramatically reduce the respiratory virus ’s significant burden of illness and death, a new study finds. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 3, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Analyzing how cancer mutations interact may improve targeted therapies
A new method from the Yale School of Public Health offers a way to examine how cell mutations interact with each other to alter tumor development. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 3, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Building community to advance metabolic science
A new Yale program will allow investigators to tackle questions relating to how mitochondrial function and regulation impacts metabolism and disease. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 2, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Eliminating racial bias in health care AI: Expert panel offers guidelines
A new report from a panel of healthcare experts, led in part by Yale ’s Lucila Ohno-Machado, identifies core guiding principles for addressing algorithmic bias. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 2, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

YSM selects former NIH director Francis Collins as commencement speaker
Collins, a physician-geneticist and the former director of the National Institutes of Health, will address the M.D. Class of 2024 at its Commencement on May 20. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - December 21, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Multi-ancestry study uncovers shared genetics of problematic drinking
A study led by VA and Yale researchers reveals ancestries around the world possess a common genetic architecture for problematic alcohol use. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - December 21, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news